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My Introduction!!!

 
 
JeffreyWilliamson
03:23 / 16.11.02
Hello everyone,

My name is Jeffrey Williamson. I live in Galveston, TX, and I am a Secular Humanist and a flaming queen. (Actually I really am gay, but not really flaming. Well maybe a little. Well, okay, I'm a big Nancy-boy.)

I came over after Ganesh was so kind as to send a little link to this site. I met him over at the CBBS, and after he and another of my fellow posters were banned, I decided to leave as well. So, lacking a home, I have joined up here. I hope that we can all become fast friends and have great adventures together.

Just so we aren't complete strangers, I thought I would take a little time to tell everyone about myself. When I am done, I would be happy to answer any questions anyone might have and perhaps you could tell me a little about yourselves.

Here we go:

It was the 1970's, the decade of Acid Rock, Roller-Discos, and Erik Estrada starring in "CHiPs". In a quiet town just south of no where, a loveable little scamp was born--me. Although it wasn't obvious at the time, I would one day grow up to become a poet, a thinker, and have hair. I was a healthy baby I am told, a shining example of the American child--right down to my 2 blue eyes, 10 strong fingers, and 12 little toes...

Although my parents swear that there were no drugs in the house, I can't seem to remember anything prior to my 3rd birthday or so, but after that, (from what I can remember), things really took off. I began school in a couple of years, and from Kindergarten to Elementary school I had a pretty mild childhood--average in just about every way.

By my early teenage years, it was apparent that something was very different about this young lad that I was growing into. I began to be able to run much faster than other children my own age. While cleaning up after the football team one afternoon I kicked the ball clear up and out of the stadium. Shortly there after I out ran a train--leaping across the rails just in front of it after catching up to the engine car. I went home to find that my father had passed away from a heart attack.

It was the 1980's, and Reaganomics had taken its nasty toll. My mother had to sell me into white slavery to pay our debts, and I spent what felt like a lifetime in painful servitude. Finally, after being rescued by a few kindly UN aid workers, I was adopted by a large drunkard of a man and taken to France. My new mommy was a fair lady, and served as both the local seamstress and village whore. My new father, a part-time steel mill worker and full-time wine tester, took to beating me with a large cane when I would step out of line. I remember one time when I was about 15 and I asked my new mommy if I could have a left over scrap for dinner, and my father, fresh in from enjoying his evening snuff, slapped me to the floor for speaking out of turn, afterwards beating me relentlessly until I fell asleep in a writing puddle of my own agony and tears. Those were good times--happy times...

Upon reaching the age of manhood I left to find my lost roots in America. I, along with several other young vagabonds, boarded a ship headed for the States. As we sailed towards New York, I remember thinking how free I was. It was a great adventure! I fell in love for the first time in my young life, and trilled to it all. Then one cold night, out of the darkness came the ice. The ship struck it, and began to sink! Passengers were in a panic as there weren't enough lifeboats for everyone on board. I barely escaped with only my wits and a large stick that I used to beat and push the more wealthy, older passengers out of one lifeboat until finally I was alone and in silence, broken only by the occasional icey moan. Soon afterwards a rescue ship arrived.

That evening, while in New York, I found a room that was affordable after hours of searching. Lonely, and remebering my French adopted father's beatings and drunken rages, I slept shaking on the tile floor of the bathroom. It was then that the abductions began. At first, it was for only a little while one or two nights a week, but quickly it became an every night affair. What once was a simple eyeball poking and various orifice proding soom became forced breeding attempts as my alien captors, (which I refer to as the "Pinkies"), used me save their own civilization from extinction. After several failed attempts with many representatives of their own species, as well as several more failed attempts with various cows, they gave up and released me one final time in Galveston, Texas, where I now reside.

And that's pretty much it. Over the last few years I have grown a lot as an individual and begun an awesome journey of exploration into the Human condition. In my free time I debate politics, sculpt miniatures of famous buildings out of Spam, and work on my Broadway play, a musical biography of 1980's sitcom star ALF.

Thank you very much for your time and attention.
 
 
Turk
04:49 / 16.11.02
It's almost as if Forrest Gump had swallowed a dictionary.
 
 
Ganesh
10:19 / 16.11.02
yu are livvin in OPPEN SIN and wil BURN LIK A PIGG IN HELLL if yu dont turn away frrom yur LIBBERAL LIFSTYLE and PRASE THE HOLLY GOHST!!!! reemmber SADEM AN GEMMERA!!!

(Umm... sorry. Wrong board.)

Welcome, Jeffrey. What's it like being gay in Texas? Is it as scary and homophobic as it's sometimes portrayed or big cattle-ranchers really wearing tight denim to show off their bubble-butts?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:33 / 16.11.02
Hello, that was a bit exciting, I was quite upset when it finished but I think you've come to the right place.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
11:59 / 16.11.02
Spam? You can still get Spam in the US? My grandmother used to torture me with Spam, particularly Spam fritters, a device of her own creation. Or maybe you didn't mean the tinned stuff made up half and half of dead pig and KY crusts?

Spam spam spam spam, Wonderful Spam etc...

Perhaps that was the problem with the Millennium bridge at Blackfriars?
 
 
JeffreyWilliamson
14:05 / 16.11.02
"It's almost as if Forrest Gump had swallowed a dictionary."

Hey, how do you know what I look like?

But seriously, that Forrest Gump line reminded me of the time that my mother, the French harlot that she was, lay ill on what would become her death bed. Oh, everyone was nice about it and all, telling me that it was "just time" and that we would "see her again someday", but Father and I knew the truth--the warts finally got her and ate her alive.

I remember when she told me that, somehow in some way, life is like a box of chocolates. You see, first comes the plastic, outer wrapper that always seems too tight to get off--like it's been shrink-wrapped to fit the box. You fight and fight, scraping your fingernails over the surface trying to find a place to get a grip, or you nibble at the corners with your teeth to make a small tear, and then you finally give up and get out the scissors--or if you are particularly lazy you just throw the box in the garbage. If you choose to stick with it and open the box, you are rewarded with rows upon rows of delicious candies--and if you are like me you immediately begin sorting through all of the rubbish chocolates like Pecan Caramel, Coconut, or anything with Orange filling. Then, what you are left with is usually taken by greedy friends that, while you were opening the box, came over and set up camp in order to claim a piece for themselves. You watch as they sort through and touch every piece with their greedy, diseased little paws, and upon finding one, pull it out of the box and suck the filling out, followed by eating the rest of the chocolate in such a manner as to leave one to think that they hadn't had a good meal in ages. Finally, having only one piece of chocolate left, you reach in and, biting down on it in a savory fashion, realize that it actually contains peanuts, at which point you spit it back into the box and lob the whole thing into the trash.

I cried when she told me that. It still rings true today...
 
 
JeffreyWilliamson
14:11 / 16.11.02
"yu are livvin in OPPEN SIN and wil BURN LIK A PIGG IN HELLL if yu dont turn away frrom yur LIBBERAL LIFSTYLE and PRASE THE HOLLY GOHST!!!! reemmber SADEM AN GEMMERA!!!"


Oh my, this isn't another one of those boards is it? I have an idea, let's debate this idea and then as I point out its flaws, you can throw endless verses at me that have to be taken out of context and given a mighty spin in order to be made to apply to the conversation. Then, as I point out any relevant scientific data on any subject that comes into the discussion, you can simply dismiss the information out of hand by accusing it of being just more of "Satan's lies", or by reminding me that, while Mohammed and the Buddha are in their graves, Christ is not in His. Followed of course by the cheers and support of virtually everyone else around us, regardless of how good a defense I put up.

Oh, I'm sorry, you were just having a bit of fun. Did I sound bitter to you at all?
 
 
w1rebaby
14:29 / 16.11.02
Jeffrey: By not ending your post with "I am a bad homosexualist and I'm really really sorry to Baby Jesus" you are in violation of the Terms Of Service which I just made up.

This thread has now gone off-topic and I am moving it somewhere else and closing it.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
19:33 / 16.11.02
JeffreyWilliamson I have an idea, let's debate this idea and then as I point out its flaws, you can throw endless verses at me that have to be taken out of context and given a mighty spin in order to be made to apply to the conversation.

Yay, sounds like a great idea. My text of choice is the collected works of Colin Dexter;
"Between pelvis and patella, that's right. Half-way, through, you say? if we don't know how long his thighs were to start with, where exactly is that 'half-way' of yours?"
The Book of the Riddle of the Third Mile, verse nineteen, page 121.

Hah, what do you say to that?
 
 
grant
20:14 / 16.11.02
Hey Jeffrey - one of my oldest friends lives off Post Office Street (I think) in a purple house ("The Purple House," the islanders call it) and works for UT Medical Branch!

Is your family old Galvestonian, or are you a transplant?

And what do you do for kicks?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
23:29 / 16.11.02
Welcome to a board where we put Jesus and what he said, hefty though it was, in the balance and weigh it against the Ancient Egyptian concept of Ma'at, Darwin, David Hume, J S Mill, Bishop Butler, de Sade, Nietszche, Sartre, Grant Morrison and the Teletubbies and make profound decsisions based on their respective scrotal density.

So happy to have you here, and Hawthorne too when she decloaks... sweetie that she is.
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:14 / 17.11.02
Im not sure; but I think I want what ZoCher just wrote on my beer lable or at the very least on a t-shirt.

Oh and JeffreyWilliamson: I like the cut of your jib. Even if its the only jib you have.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
10:29 / 02.03.06
Hey Jeff, how ya doin' Jack denfeld here, pleased to meet ya.
 
  
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